Chapters 3 & 4
Answer using complete sentences and the RACED model.

1. In the lifeboat, why was Phillip angry with Timothy?
2. Talk with a partner. Timothy calls Phillip ‘young bahss.’ He does this because he is black and Phillip is white. Do you think they can be good friends? Do you think Phillip feels like a ‘young bahss?’
3. Find the two halves of these sentences. Join them with because.

(a) In the lifeboat, Phillip starts to think (i) he sees birds.
about black people (ii) Timothy is black.
(b)Timothy takes their shirts and makes (iii) the sun is bad for Phillip’s eyes
the shelter again
(c) When Phillip goes blind, he starts to (iv) he is angry.
hit Timothy
(d) Timothy knows they are near an island

4. Close your book. What do you know about Timothy so far? These sentences

are wrong. Make them right.

He is young and quite short, with black hair and thin arms. He was one of the workers on the Empress Tern. He calls Phillip ‘Stew.’ He is from the island of Barbados. He knows nothing about the sea and the cays. He is unkind to Phillip.